augurverb [ I + adv/prep, T ]
uk/ˈɔː.ɡər/us/ˈɑː.ɡɚ/formalto be a sign of especially good or bad things in the future:
The company's sales figures for the first six months augur well for the rest of the year.
Do you think that this recent ministerial announcement augurs (= is a sign of) a shift in government policy?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Predicting things and intuition
- augury
- bellwether
- betcha
- bode
- clairvoyant
- far-sighted
- intuition
- intuitive
- nasty
- omen
- ominous
- projection
- prophetic
- psychic
- read sb's mind idiom
- read sb's palm idiom
- read the runes idiom
- scenario
- scent
- visionary
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